The document discusses image restoration techniques to recover degraded images. It describes modeling image degradation using a degradation function and additive noise. Common noise sources and models are explained, including Gaussian, Rayleigh, Erlang, exponential, uniform, and impulse noise. Spatial filtering techniques for noise removal are covered, such as mean, order-statistic (median, max, min), and adaptive filters. Adaptive median filters are discussed that vary the filter window size until the median pixel value is not an impulse value. The goal of image restoration is to apply the inverse of the degradation process to recover the original undamaged image.